Your Tax Dollars at Rest
So the 2007 city budget war has begun. I use the word ‘war’ deliberately because if it follows the pattern of previous years there will be endless strategizing, tactical advances and retreats, and the taking and losing of vital assets.
It’s true there will be no armies in the field but small [...]

Election 2006
Writer predicts increasing wards and eliminating board of control will prove costly to inattentive voters.
Instead of doing a traditional New Year’s column predicting local political shenanigans for the next 12 months, I’d like to focus my crystal ball three or four times further into the future.
As a result of what happened in 2006, I [...]

Picking the Right Candidate
Holding municipal politicians accountable at election time is a tricky business at best largely because the average voter often can’t remember what the politicians’ voting records were.
Come election time, London politicians take credit for everything good that’s happened since Slippery came back to Storybook and conveniently forget their role in anything that [...]

The Socialist Takeover Begins
The poll numbers tell it all. Or do they? According to a story in The Free Press last week, incumbent Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best leads challenger Joe Fontana by a seemingly insurmountable 20-point margin.
So why bother having the election, when this poll has apparently settled everything already?
Because while a single sampling of [...]

Election 2006
GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. It means if you don’t put meaningful, useful information into a computer program, you can’t expect to get meaningful, useful information out. And it applies to politics, too.
There’s an awful lot of garbage being pushed and shoved around our city these days, and only some of it ends up [...]